Relations
[rɪ'leɪʃ(ə)nz] or [rɪ'leʃənz]
Definition
(noun.) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups.
Editor: Nolan--From WordNet
Unserious Contents or Definition
A tedious pack of people who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Examples
- The relations between the Ottoman Sultans and the Emperors has been singular in the annals of Moslem and Christian states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The same principle has application on the side of the considerations which concern the relations of one nation to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I therefore hope,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'that you can make yourself happy in those relations. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He knew of no one but Mrs. Goddard to whom he could apply for information of her relations or friends. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The poor relations caught the people who they thought would like it, and, when the game flagged, got caught themselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The most friendly relations seemed to exist between the pickets of the two armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As implied in a previous chapter, number relations are not clearly grasped by primitive races. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I don't want a son-in-law who has got nothing but his relations to recommend him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A cause traces the way to our thought, and in a manner forces us to survey such certain objects, in such certain relations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The material of thinking is not thoughts, but actions, facts, events, and the relations of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All his relations--his mother especially--would be annoyed if he married me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It might naturally be expected, that I should join DIFFERENCE to the other relations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The accession of fortune, the discovery of my relations, followed in due order. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If a person be my brother I am his likewise: but though the relations be reciprocal they have very different effects on the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- If the male relations of Madame Rigaud had put themselves forward openly, I should have known how to deal with them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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